Patents by Inventor Akira Sakai

Akira Sakai has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 9746072
    Abstract: An oil pressure control device controls a supply pressure of oil supplied to an oil pressure chamber of a friction element having a first engagement board and a second engagement board engaged with or disengaged from each other between a non-engagement state and a non-sliding engagement state via a sliding engagement state. The oil pressure control device includes: an electromagnetic valve that controls the supply pressure using a spool which reciprocates according to an energizing amount; and a control part that defines a first oscillatory wave part in which the energizing amount is controlled by making a first waveform with a first frequency to superimpose on a second waveform with a second frequency higher than the first frequency during a first period while the sliding engagement state and an instruction value of the supply pressure are kept constant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Sakai, Fuminori Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20170220720
    Abstract: A temperature calculation method for a substrate, the temperature calculation method includes: calculating, by a computer performing a circuit simulation based on a resistance equivalent to a component that joins two substrates included in a target model of an analysis, a value of a current that flows through the component or voltage values in respective end portions of the component; setting, based on model information for expressing the target model, the current value or the voltage values in a first surface and a second surface that are included in surfaces of an outer shape of the component and that are in contact with the respective substrates; and calculating a first current density distribution of the component by performing a first electrical analysis according to the setting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2016
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Tetsuyuki Kubota, Akira Ueda, Hideharu Matsushita, Akihiro Otsuka, Yasuhiro Ite, Takamasa Shinde, Kazuhisa Inagaki, Akira Sakai
  • Publication number: 20170199311
    Abstract: The present invention provides a mirror display that enables simultaneous perception of a mirror image and an image with suppressed uncomfortable feeling. The mirror display of the present invention includes a half mirror plate including a half mirror layer, and a display device. The display device is disposed on the back surface side of the half mirror plate. The distance between a display surface of the display device and a display surface of the half mirror plate is not smaller than 100 mm. The half mirror layer preferably includes a reflective polarizer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2015
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventors: Akira SAKAI, Masahiro HASEGAWA, Hiroyuki HAKOI, Kiyoshi MINOURA
  • Publication number: 20170188020
    Abstract: The present invention provides a mirror display system that enables simultaneous perception of a mirror image and a video image with suppressed uncomfortable feeling. The mirror display system of the present invention includes a half mirror plate including a half mirror layer; a 3D display device; and a control unit being configured to supply a video signal to the 3D display device. The 3D display device is disposed on the back surface side of the half mirror plate and is configured to display, by the video signal, a video image for the left eye and a video image for the right eye that give a parallax on a display surface of the 3D display device. The parallax is set such that a fused video image of the video image for the left eye and the video image for the right eye is perceived on the back surface side behind the display surface of the 3D display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2015
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akira SAKAI, Masahiro HASEGAWA, Hiroyuki HAKOI, Kiyoshi MINOURA
  • Patent number: 9683584
    Abstract: The brake device for a vehicle generates two master pressures by controlling one single servo pressure to accurately control braking force. The pressure increasing characteristic is set based on the first pressure increasing characteristic obtained from the relationship between the servo pressure and the first master pressure upon increasing the servo pressure and the second pressure increasing characteristic obtained from the servo pressure and the second master pressure. The pressure decreasing characteristic is set based on the first pressure increasing characteristic obtained from the relationship between the servo pressure and the first master pressure upon decreasing the servo pressure and the second pressure decreasing characteristic obtained from the servo pressure and the second master pressure. Thus, the total braking force of the brake device is the sum of a braking force generated by the first master pressure and a braking force generated by the second master piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignees: ADVICS CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshio Masuda, Hiroaki Niino, Akira Sakai, Yasuji Mizutani, Kiyoyuki Uchida, Masaaki Komazawa, Kazutaka Noro, Yusuke Kamiya
  • Patent number: 9684204
    Abstract: The present invention provides a mirror display which prevents the boundary line between a frame region and a display region from being observed in a mirror mode and which thus has improved design quality. The mirror display of the present invention includes a half mirror plate including a half mirror layer, and a display device disposed behind the half mirror plate, the display device including a display panel and a frame component that supports a peripheral portion of the display panel, and the mirror display including a reflectance adjuster that makes equal the reflectance in a display region where the half mirror layer and the display panel face each other and the reflectance in a frame region where the half mirror layer and the frame component face each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akira Sakai, Takayuki Nishiyama, Masahiro Hasegawa, Hidefumi Yoshida, Shigeaki Mizushima
  • Publication number: 20170168349
    Abstract: The present invention provides a mirror plate capable of suppressing the occurrence of orange peel-like unevenness. The mirror plate includes a mirror film including a mirror layer and an adhesive layer; and a substrate. The adhesive layer is attached to one surface of the substrate. The one surface of the substrate has an arithmetic average roughness of less than 0.03 ?m. The mirror film includes no hard coat layer containing cured resin. The thicknesses of the mirror layer and the adhesive layer have a relation satisfying: tA/tM?0.18, where tM represents the thickness of the mirror layer and to represents the thickness of the adhesive layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2015
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Inventors: Akira SAKAI, Masahiro HASEGAWA, Hiroyuki HAKOI, Kiyoshi MINOURA
  • Publication number: 20170082895
    Abstract: The present invention provides a mirror display that can match the peripheral environment having diffusely reflecting surfaces in the mirror mode, and an electronic device including the mirror display. The mirror display includes a half mirror plate that includes a reflective polarizer and a display device. The half mirror plate further includes a light-diffusing member that diffuses at least part of incident light. The mirror display includes, in the order from the back surface side, the display device, the reflective polarizer, and the light-diffusing member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2015
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Inventors: Akira SAKAI, Masahiro HASEGAWA, Hiroyuki HAKOI, Kiyoshi MINOURA, Shigeaki MIZUSHIMA
  • Publication number: 20170059935
    Abstract: The present invention provides a mirror display that can suppress warp of a half mirror plate with a reflective polarizer under heat to prevent distortion of a reflected image in a mirror mode. The mirror display of the present invention includes a half mirror plate that includes a first reflective polarizer and a first base material, a display device, and a warp-suppressing member that suppresses shrinking of the first reflective polarizer under heat. The first reflective polarizer and the first base material are integrated, and the display device is disposed on the back surface side of the half mirror plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroyuki HAKOI, Masahiro HASEGAWA, Akira SAKAI, Kiyoshi MINOURA
  • Patent number: 9575364
    Abstract: This liquid crystal display device (100) includes: a vertical alignment liquid crystal layer (30); first and second substrates (10, 20); first and second electrodes (11, 21) arranged on the first and second substrates to face the liquid crystal layer; and two photo-alignment films (12, 22). Each pixel region includes first and second liquid crystal domains, of which the reference alignment directions defined by the two photo-alignment films are a first direction and a second direction different from the first direction, respectively. The first electrode has a slit cut region (11R1), through which a slit (11s) has been cut to run substantially parallel to the reference alignment direction, in a part of a region allocated to each of the first and second liquid crystal domains. The width (W) of the slit is set so that when the highest grayscale voltage is applied to the first electrode, an effective applied voltage decreases by at least 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hidefumi Yoshida, Tsuyoshi Kamada, Tsuyoshi Maeda, Mitsuhiro Murata, Yoji Yoshimura, Yuichiro Yamada, Kenji Okamoto, Yosuke Iwata, Yasuhiro Nasu, Akira Sakai, Masahiro Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 9566971
    Abstract: In a hydraulic brake system including a cylinder device that includes a front chamber and a rear chamber located on front and rear sides of a pressurizing piston, respectively, presence or absence of liquid leakage from a brake line is detected based on a hydraulic pressure in the rear chamber. Where a state in which a subtraction value obtained by subtracting an actual rear hydraulic pressure from a target rear hydraulic pressure is larger than a first malfunction determination threshold value has continued for a time not shorter than a first malfunction determination time, and then an increase of the actual rear hydraulic pressure at a rate not lower than a set rate has caused the subtraction value to become smaller than a return determination threshold value, it is determined that the pressurizing piston has been bottomed due to liquid leakage from the front chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takahiro Okano, Yusuke Kamiya, Kiyoyuki Uchida, Akira Sakai, Hiroshi Ueno, Masaaki Uechi
  • Publication number: 20170031206
    Abstract: A display device in which ambient light reflections, for example, from IPS or FFS type displays are reduced by a circular polariser (e.g., linear polariser combined with external quarter waveplate) to make the light circular polarized, as it traverses the multiple reflective layers between the polariser and LC layer, and then an internal quarter waveplate converts the light back to linear polarisation before it enters the LC, so the display can operate as normal, while the circular polariser absorbs unwanted reflections of ambient light from within the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2015
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Inventors: Nathan James SMITH, Hywel HOPKIN, Kiyoshi MINOURA, Akira SAKAI, Benjamin John BROUGHTON
  • Publication number: 20160343308
    Abstract: The present invention provides a mirror display that has improved design aesthetics and makes it possible to sufficiently improve visibility in mirror mode in dark environments. The mirror display according to the present invention includes a half mirror plate having a half mirror layer, a display device, a case, and an auxiliary illumination unit that includes an auxiliary light source. The case supports at least the half mirror plate and the display device and includes an outer frame that covers an edge of a front surface of the half mirror plate when viewed in a plan view from a viewing side. The display device is arranged on a rear side of the half mirror plate. The auxiliary light source is arranged on the rear side of the half mirror plate, the display device, or the outer frame. The auxiliary illumination unit is controlled separately from the display device and emits light towards the viewing side when the mirror display is in mirror mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masahiro HASEGAWA, Hiroyuki HAKOI, Akira SAKAI, Hidefumi YOSHIDA, Takaharu KANAI, Takako SHIMIZU, Yuuki ITOU, Atsushi OGAWA, Akira TSURUTA, Takayuki YUASA, Shigeaki MIZUSHIMA
  • Patent number: 9499147
    Abstract: The vehicle brake system includes a cylinder, an output piston disposed in the cylinder, an input piston disposed in the cylinder but separating from the output piston and defining a separation chamber therebetween, a brake pedal connected to the input piston, a reaction force generating device for generating an elastic reaction force, a separation lock valve for controlling the communication between the separation chamber and the reaction force generating device, a fade state judging portion to judge whether the friction brake device is in a fade state or not and a friction braking force control portion for changing the mode to the fade state when the fade state judging portion judged that the friction brake device is in the fade state, wherein a desired friction braking force can be assured even under the brake fade state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yosuke Yamasoe, Hiroaki Niino, Yoshio Masuda, Takashi Kurokawa, Kiyoyuki Uchida, Masaaki Komazawa, Akira Sakai, Yasuji Mizutani, Yusuke Kamiya
  • Publication number: 20160334012
    Abstract: An oil pressure control device controls a supply pressure of oil supplied to an oil pressure chamber of a friction element having a first engagement board and a second engagement board engaged with or disengaged from each other between a non-engagement state and a non-sliding engagement state via a sliding engagement state. The oil pressure control device includes: an electromagnetic valve that controls the supply pressure using a spool which reciprocates according to an energizing amount; and a control part that defines a first oscillatory wave part in which the energizing amount is controlled by making a first waveform with a first frequency to superimpose on a second waveform with a second frequency higher than the first frequency during a first period while the sliding engagement state and an instruction value of the supply pressure are kept constant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2016
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Inventors: Akira SAKAI, Fuminori SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 9494172
    Abstract: A vehicle brake device is provided with a master cylinder, a master piston slidably arranged in the master cylinder, an input piston slidably arranged in the master cylinder to be separated from the master piston and defining a separation chamber, an input piston moving amount detecting section for detecting the moving amount of the input piston, a master piston moving amount calculating section for calculating the moving amount of the master piston based on the moving amount of the input piston, and a contact inferring section for inferring the contact of the input piston with the master piston based on the moving amount of the input piston and the moving amount of the master piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaki Maruyama, Yoshio Masuda, Akitaka Nishio, Kiyoyuki Uchida, Masaaki Komazawa, Akira Sakai, Yasuji Mizutani, Yusuke Kamiya
  • Patent number: 9429791
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device which can achieve cost reduction, excellent productivity, and a high contrast ratio within a wide viewing angle range. The liquid crystal display device of the present invention includes, in the order set forth, a first polarizer, a first ?/4 plate, a liquid crystal cell, a second ?/4 plate, a third Type-I birefringent layer, a Type-IV birefringent layer, and a second polarizer. An in-plane slow axis of the first ?/4 plate forms an angle of about 45° with an absorption axis of the first polarizer. An in-plane slow axis of the second ?/4 plate is substantially perpendicular to the in-plane slow axis of the first ?/4 plate. An absorption axis of the second polarizer is substantially perpendicular to the absorption axis of the first polarizer. An in-plane slow axis of the third Type-I birefringent layer is substantially parallel with the absorption axis of the second polarizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akira Sakai, Masahiro Hasegawa, Takayuki Nishiyama
  • Publication number: 20160178964
    Abstract: The present invention provides a mirror display that sufficiently prevents a decrease in the screen luminance in the display mode while sufficiently increasing the reflectance in the mirror mode, and also gives excellent production efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2014
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Inventors: Akira SAKAI, Masahiro HASEGAWA, Hiroyuki HAKOI, Hidefumi YOSHIDA, Shigeaki MIZUSHIMA
  • Patent number: 9365198
    Abstract: A braking device for a vehicle includes an operating characteristics setting portion for setting an operating characteristic which is a relationship between the input electric power to the electro-magnetic valve and a pressure difference between a master cylinder side and a wheel cylinder side with respect to the electro-magnetic valve, based on the input electric power at the time when the accumulator pressure detected by the accumulator pressure detecting portion first falls to a value equal to or less than a threshold value accumulator pressure by changing the input electric power towards an opening side of the electro-magnetic valve in response to a time lapsed after a predetermined value of the pilot pressure has been generated by the pilot pressure generating portion by first closing the electro-magnetic valve thereby to suppress the manufacturing cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignees: ADVICS CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshio Masuda, Yasunori Sakata, Kazutaka Noro, Akira Sakai, Kiyoyuki Uchida, Masaaki Komazawa, Yasuji Mizutani, Yusuke Kamiya
  • Patent number: 9366915
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel (100A) includes: a first substrate (2) and a second substrate (3), a liquid crystal layer (1) retained between the first substrate (2) and the second substrate (3), and plurality of pixels. The liquid crystal layer (1) has a first liquid crystal region (81) and a second liquid crystal region (82) provided outside the first liquid crystal region (81). The first liquid crystal region (81) is essentially composed of a nematic liquid crystal material alone, whereas the second liquid crystal region (82) has a plurality of liquid crystal subregions (11) containing a nematic liquid crystal material and polymer-containing walls (12) formed between adjacent ones of the plurality of liquid crystal subregions (11). The plurality of pixels include pixels accounting for the first liquid crystal region (81) and pixels accounting for the second liquid crystal region (82).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hisashi Watanabe, Akira Sakai, Yuichi Iyama, Akiko Miyazaki, Eiji Satoh, Yasushi Asaoka